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"Dr. Eric Parrish is the Chief of the Psychiatric Unit at Havemeyer General Hospital outside of Philadelphia. Recently separated from his wife Alice, he is doing his best as a single Dad to his seven-year-old daughter Hannah. His work seems to be going better than his home life, however. His unit at the hospital has just been named number two in the country and Eric has a devoted staff of doctors and nurses who are as caring as Eric is. But when he...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Promising to be the debut novel of the season The Silent Patient is a shocking psychological thriller of a woman's act of violence against her husband?and of the therapist obsessed with uncovering her motive... Alicia Berenson's life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London's most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel...
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Publisher
Bloomsbury USA
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"In a trance-like state, Albert walks--from Bordeaux to Poitiers, from Chaumont to Macon, and farther afield to Turkey, Austria, Russia--all over Europe. When he walks, he is called a vagrant, a mad man. He is chased out of towns and villages, ridiculed and imprisoned. When the reverie of his walking ends, he's left wondering where he is, with no memory of how he got there. His past exists only in fleeting images. Loosely based on the case history...
5) Side effects
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A young woman's world unravels when a drug prescribed by her psychiatrist has unexpected side effects.
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When Victoria Cruz wakes up in the psychiatric ward of a Texas hospital after her failed suicide attempt, she still has no desire to live, but as the weeks pass, and she meets Dr. Desai and three of the other patients, she begins to reflect on the reasons why she feels like a loser compared with the rest of her family, and to see a path ahead where she can make a life of her own.
7) Halloween
Publisher
Distributed by Genius Products
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
The residents of Haddonfield don't know it yet, but death is coming to their small sleepy town. Sixteen years ago, ten-year-old Michael Myers brutally kills his step father, his elder sister and her boyfriend. Sixteen years later, he escapes from the mental institution he had been placed in and made his way back to his hometown intent on a murderous rampage. He is pursued by Dr. Sam Loomis who is Michael's doctor and the only one who knows Michael's...
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Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
When Michael Pollan set out to research how LSD and psilocybin (the active ingredient in magic mushrooms) are being used to provide relief to people suffering from difficult-to-treat conditions such as depression, addiction and anxiety, he did not intend to write his most personal book. But upon discovering how these remarkable substances are improving the lives not only of the mentally ill but also of healthy people coming to grips with the challenges...
12) K-Pax
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
A stranger claiming to be from another planet mystifies psychiatrists and scientists.
13) Boogeyman 2
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
After checking herself into a mental hospital to overcome the death of her parents, a young woman faces her biggest fear: the boogeyman.
16) Halloween
Publisher
Weinstein Co
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The residents of Haddonfield don't know it yet, but death is coming to their small sleepy town. Sixteen years ago, Michael Myers, a ten year old boy, brutally kills his step father, his elder sister and her boyfriend. Sixteen years later, he escapes from the mental institution he has been placed in and makes his way back to his hometown intent on a murderous rampage. He is pursued by Dr. Sam Loomis who is Michael's doctor and the only one who knows...
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Publisher
Seventh Street Books, an imprint of Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"When one of Randi Conway's psychotherapy patients is found dead of a gunshot wound, the investigation is turned over to Lieutenant Anthony Walker. Formerly a New York City cop, Walker now serves on the police force of an affluent community in Fairfield County, Connecticut. He lives among the privileged gentry, where he understands that appearances are often far removed from reality. This certainly proves to be true in the death of Elizabeth Knoebel,...
18) 55 steps
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Based on the inspiring true story of an outrageous and smart Eleanor Riese, a patient in a psychiatric hospital where she's been mistreated, and her attorney, a patients' rights lawyer, Colette Hughes.
19) Shrink
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
A top Los Angeles celebrity psychiatrist discovers that he needs counseling as much as his patients do.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
This book delves inside the mystery of mental disorders - presenting explanations and recollections using the cartoonist's own experiences as both a psychiatric and care nurse and as someone who himself has suffered from depression.
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